For today's Blizzard roundup, we learn that will be removed, WoW will be at the Hellfest music festival, and Southshore vs Tarren Mill will continue to receive balance adjustments for the next PvP brawl.

Edit: Blizzard added more clarification on the decision to remove the achievement.

Unholy Determination Achievement

The , tied to the Death Knight class mount quests, will be removed in 7.2.5. This achievement is a special Feat of Strength -- and no other classes had a FoS attached to their class mount questline. Plus, many people did not know about the achievement, and due to the one-time nature of the quest, could not go back to repeat it.

Blizzard

This Feat of Strength wasn’t actually intended to go live. We’d decided some time ago that it didn’t really fit in line with our philosophies regarding achievements, particularly due to the non-repeatable nature of the Class Mount questline. Once 7.2.5 is released, it will no longer be granted, and will be removed from players who had already received it.I can appreciate that no-one likes having something taken away from them. To try and clarify a little bit why we came to this decision; during the course of the PTR testing feedback from the community overwhelmingly pointed out that a missable achievement was both unfun for players that missed it, and unfun for players that felt compelled to slaughter innocent red dragons to achieve it.

I do also want to mention that, while the Feat of Strength will be removed, the special voice line from Bolvar will still play if players choose to follow this particular route.

WoW at Hellfest

WoW is ready to rock at the Hellfest Festival this summer! Do you think the new tune from the Blight Boar Death Metal Encounter coming to the Darkmoon Faire in 7.2.5 will be performed?

Blue Tweets

With the PvP season coming to an end shortly, interest has been high in PvP.

Commentaires

Commentaire de tigerfighter

no, don't steal my FoS! if people are REALLY so sad they don't have it, they can level up a new DK and get it if it's that important to them

Commentaire de Grabovsky

on 2017-06-08T09:43:24-05:00

no, don't steal my FoS! if people are REALLY so sad they don't have it, they can level up a new DK and get it if it's that important to them

I know, mount questlines arent going away, so no need to remove it.

Commentaire de Shizzlawizzla

on 2017-06-08T09:44:59-05:00

A long time DK here who is disappointed that the Unholy Determination FoS is being removed. This small questline has finally given me a spark of hope that DKs will be what they looked like when they were first introduced in WotLK - not some sad blue-eyed dark characters "seeking redemption for the terrible crimes that they have commited" (boohoo) but individuals truly stripped of every positive emotion. Make no mistake, DKs are still the killing machines that Lich King has designed them to be, now they just don´t answer to him (or do they?).

So arriving to the final part of the Breaching the Tomb achievement (and holy guacamole, what a long trip that´s been), I was so excited - not about killing the Red Dragonflight, but about the fact that I got to choose. I got to choose whether I will excuse their short-sightedness or whether I will eliminate all those who oppose my quest. The Red Dragonflight was guarding the book and refusing to give it up to me, even though that the information could prove useful when fighting Legion itself? A Death Knight doesn´t make agreements. A Death Knight doesn´t wait for others to understand the gravity of the situation. THat´s why the order invaded the Paladin sanctum and raised the fallen heroes of Horde and Alliance, dammit.

So all I´m trying to say is that despite Blizzard´s effort to try to immerse us in our classes via overhauling the toolkits and embedding the class philosophy in artifact weapons and item sets, they´re going to remove that one thing that actually made immersed - the possibility to make a decision that corresponds with the class I´m playing.

Also, concerning the argument that "it is not repeatable" - What about the Herald of the Titans FoT? Nobody told me that as I raced past the level 80...

Commentaire de deathlavitz

on 2017-06-08T09:49:13-05:00

is it too late to say unleash your rage over something that should not of happened?

Commentaire de Soeroah

on 2017-06-08T10:01:46-05:00

Baaah.

There goes any chance of it being "canon".

Commentaire de Ashley

on 2017-06-08T10:33:58-05:00

Really disappointed that they're removing it. That achievement just screams flavor, and the idea was pretty neat overall.

Fun detected.

Commentaire de alqtrkappa

on 2017-06-08T10:54:43-05:00

As a dk I think it's sweet to go around raising hell. I think it's unfortunate about the FoS but I'll live. What I'm waiting for is repercussions for our actions. We assaulted Light's Hope Chapel, terrorized Wyrmrest Temple and massacred the Ruby Sanctum. I think it would be pretty epic to be confronted for our actions.

Commentaire de TutorialBlox

on 2017-06-08T10:59:55-05:00

No FOS? C'mon that's really stupid Blizzard!

Commentaire de Lolumbine

on 2017-06-08T11:02:09-05:00

Whats the point in removing it from people who already completed it? It provides only a link to an achievement that some people may or may not have, the same as every other FoS.

So again, whats the point of removing it from people who already earned it, aside from the dev failure to detect and remove this prior to release?

Commentaire de jjanchan

on 2017-06-08T11:15:39-05:00

It wasn't intended to make it to game and it accidentally did. Removing it completely is entirely reasonable in that setting.

Commentaire de ED209

on 2017-06-08T11:21:53-05:00

It wasn't intended to make it to game and it accidentally did. Removing it completely is entirely reasonable in that setting.

Yup. Funny to see people crying about it.

Commentaire de misfitgurl66

on 2017-06-08T11:23:27-05:00

So will they replace it with something else instead that is easier to obtain?

Commentaire de mysticalos

on 2017-06-08T11:47:02-05:00

It sounds like you can still choose that path and get those events to happen. They aren't removing the story/cannon.

Commentaire de TheGrandWarlock

on 2017-06-08T11:51:11-05:00

So im gonna play devil's advocate since all of y'all are $%^&*ing about your FoS. So unless you had a serious bloodlust or you were in the ptr, most dk's didnt know about this. So sure it is fair that some got it and some didnt but no class has a similiar FoS. Therefore it is fair to remove it since there is no such thing for the other classes BUT because they are removing it, it should be removed in its entirety because it's already been stated that it snuck its way into live.

Now for those of you complaining that its a loss of "flavour", oh cry me a river you will never be satisfied with this game. So shut up and play like the rest of us. Living you life waiting for blizz to do something you do t like and then !@#$% about it will give you more stress than its worth. Its a game. Treat it like one. They're trying thier best to be fair to everyone and its gonna make you or me or someone else mad.

Commentaire de Downlin

on 2017-06-08T11:59:53-05:00

Baaah.

There goes any chance of it being "canon".

Yeah, thank god for that. Death Knights aren't the Skywalker Edgelords the achievement turned them into anymore and the illogical slaughter of the Red Dragonflight, unrelated to any other points made so far, is gone.

Commentaire de Downlin

on 2017-06-08T12:01:28-05:00

As a dk I think it's sweet to go around raising hell. I think it's unfortunate about the FoS but I'll live. What I'm waiting for is repercussions for our actions. We assaulted Light's Hope Chapel, terrorized Wyrmrest Temple and massacred the Ruby Sanctum. I think it would be pretty epic to be confronted for our actions.

But how would the confrontation ever be fruitful? Its not like Blizzard can actually punish you for the misdeeds because you have player protection. Sucks all kinds of sense and hopes for retribution out of it.

Commentaire de Downlin

on 2017-06-08T12:06:00-05:00

Lets just hope Blizzard ends their constant hunger for Dragon Holocaust and gives them something to do again. No need to *!@# them up more than they were during Cataclysm, especially not when the edgiest of the fanbase get the final say.

Commentaire de emilovik

on 2017-06-08T12:12:11-05:00

So im gonna play devil's advocate since all of y'all are $%^&*ing about your FoS. So unless you had a serious bloodlust or you were in the ptr, most dk's didnt know about this. So sure it is fair that some got it and some didnt but no class has a similiar FoS. Therefore it is fair to remove it since there is no such thing for the other classes BUT because they are removing it, it should be removed in its entirety because it's already been stated that it snuck its way into live.

Now for those of you complaining that its a loss of "flavour", oh cry me a river you will never be satisfied with this game. So shut up and play like the rest of us. Living you life waiting for blizz to do something you do t like and then !@#$% about it will give you more stress than its worth. Its a game. Treat it like one. They're trying thier best to be fair to everyone and its gonna make you or me or someone else mad.

Worst hate reply I've read so far.

"Shut up and play like the rest of us" This comment right here hints a small(if not more) amount of jealousy for a F***ing useless FoS which didn't give any mount, title, reward of some sort or even achievement points. So it was entirely a small FLAVOR for DKs. Nothing to be crying over for DKs to have.As some other people said above, if it was that much of a big deal for some people, they could have always made a DK and just get it since the content isn't going away.I for one am strongly opposed to this decision, even though it's pretty much a useless thing they have to remove. It was fun to do and it was a small memory to last, something that didn't hurt nobody. I've been a DK for a long time and very passionate about the class fantasy and this was a small useless (but with good taste) reward that I got from being interested enough in my class to know about it. After I left the Ruby Sanctum I even lingered a bit around the Wyrmrest Temple and spammed the general chat to let the other DKs know about this as well. I am (again) profoundly disappointed in their decision, though it will not affect me much. It was a thing of good taste and I liked it.If Blizzard want to keep everyone on the same level so much, why don't they go further with this idea on other topics(like elite pvp mogs), instead of useless FOS that was intended to be fun and nothing more.

Commentaire de Downlin

on 2017-06-08T12:16:37-05:00

So im gonna play devil's advocate since all of y'all are $%^&*ing about your FoS. So unless you had a serious bloodlust or you were in the ptr, most dk's didnt know about this. So sure it is fair that some got it and some didnt but no class has a similiar FoS. Therefore it is fair to remove it since there is no such thing for the other classes BUT because they are removing it, it should be removed in its entirety because it's already been stated that it snuck its way into live.

Now for those of you complaining that its a loss of "flavour", oh cry me a river you will never be satisfied with this game. So shut up and play like the rest of us. Living you life waiting for blizz to do something you do t like and then !@#$% about it will give you more stress than its worth. Its a game. Treat it like one. They're trying thier best to be fair to everyone and its gonna make you or me or someone else mad.

Worst hate reply I've read so far.

"Shut up and play like the rest of us" This comment right here represents a hit of jealousy (if not more) for a F***ing useless FoS which didn't give any mount, title, reward of some sort or even achievement points. So it was entirely a small FLAVOR for DKs. Nothing to be crying over.As some other people said above, if it was that much of a big deal for some people, they could have always made a DK and just get it since the content isn't going away.I for one am strongly opposed to this decision, even though it's pretty much a useless thing they have to remove. It was fun to do and it was a small memory to last, something that didn't hurt nobody. I've been a DK for a long time and very passionate about the class fantasy and this was a small useless (but with good taste) reward that I got from being interested enough in my class to know about it. After I left the Ruby Sanctum I even lingered a bit around the Wyrmrest Temple and spammed the general chat to let the other DKs know about this as well. I am (again) profoundly disappointed in their decision, though it will not affect me much. It was a thing of good taste and I liked it.If Blizzard want to keep everyone on the same level so much, why don't they go further with this idea on other topics, instead of useless FOS that was intended to be fun and nothing more.

For me, the general issue isn't that the DKs got a FoS. It's that Blizzard lets them slaughter an already tortured, beloved and neglected faction without any other players getting a say. Give us a BG or something, where it is every class against DKs to protect the dragons from their bloodlust, or something. But no, instead, Blizzard just logic-seals the deal with a FoS and pretends they keep the outcome open, as they've hinted about on Twitter. That's what makes me -very glad- that it is gone.

Commentaire de ashker

on 2017-06-08T12:26:27-05:00

Come on, even most of the classes' spells are now similar to each other because otherwise class x players would cry about not having class y's ability. Now you expect them to give a class a FoS without giving it to other classes? Impossible!